MONDAY, March 3.  We anoint Brother Daniel Glick this morning.  He is very low in sickness.  Come to Dayton to afternoon appointment, where I speak from John 1:29.  Stay all night at Samuel Koontz’s.

WEDNESDAY, March 19.  Council meeting at the Brush meetinghouse.  Benjamin Miller, son of Daniel Miller, near the head of Linville Creek, is elected to the deaconship.  I feel that the right brother was chosen, and entertain large hopes for his future.

FRIDAY, April 4.  Council meeting at our meetinghouse.  Brother Samuel Zigler is elected to the deaconship.  We might have selected a man of more words; but I am persuaded that one of purer mind and heart could not have been found.  Brother Benjamin Bowman stays all night with me.  This evening he related to me a remarkable dream he had had not very long before.  To use his own words, as nearly as I can give them, he said:  “I dreamed that I had died, but found myself consciously awake in the land of departed spirits.  My own father met me.  I knew him.  The joy with which he received and welcomed me I cannot describe.  My next experience was along a stream of very clear water.  It did not appear to be a very large stream, but its remarkable character impressed me as singular.  It flowed gently.  It was not swift, but glided smoothly along, uphill and downhill the same.  Its speed never varied, and this unaccountable characteristic struck me with surprise that waked me.  This is my interpretation of my dream,” said he:  “The clear stream of water represents what the Christian should be.  Its transparency symbolizes the clear thought and intelligent understanding that he should have respecting himself and his life.  Self-knowledge should enable him to see himself in clear light.  This knowledge leads to a clear understanding of his relation to God and man, and reveals whether that relation is what it should be, or otherwise.  The uniform flow of the stream uphill and down, which so surprised me, symbolizes that inward peace of mind and gentle flow of heavenly affections which constitute the Christian’s happiness in life.  Though he have his ups and downs in life, his inward peace gently glides along.  ’In the world ye shall have tribulation; but in me ye shall have peace.’  One more thought.  It is not natural for water to run uphill.  Nothing short of divine power can make water run uphill in an open channel such as this had.  This symbolizes the love and mercy of the Lord in our being kept by his hand in these inwardly calm and heavenly frames of feeling.  Brother John, I never felt better from a dream in all my life.”

SATURDAY, April 12.  Council meeting at Shaver’s meetinghouse, in Shenandoah County.  Brother John Brindle is advanced.

SUNDAY, May 4.  Meeting at Nathan Spitler’s schoolhouse, in Page County.  Hamilton Varner and wife, and John Huffman’s wife are baptized to-day.

MONDAY, May 5.  This day I start to the Annual Meeting, which is appointed to meet about fourteen miles from Freeport, in Stephenson County, on the extreme north border of Illinois, and about three miles from Brother Young’s.  After being exposed to many dangers and detentions, and one wreck on the way, I arrived safe at the place of meeting on